This article describes the development and successful implementation of campus postvention services in the aftermath of college student deaths by suicide as well as by natural and accidental causes.
Resources for Campus Suicide Prevention and Mental Health Promotion
The following list contains items specific to this page.
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Aftermath of Tragic Events: The Development and Use of Community Support Meetings on a University Campus
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Campus Mental Health Action Planning (CampusMHAP) Webinar Series
The Jed Foundation and Education Development Center, Inc. offered this series of four webinars in 2008-09, featuring suicide prevention experts and campus prevention staff as presenters.
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CampusMHAP Webinar I: Building Momentum
The first webinar in the Campus Mental Health Action Planning series focuses on how to build momentum for developing a mental health promotion and suicide prevention plan. This session covers data relating to the scope and nature of student mental health problems and suicide; components of a comprehensive, public health approach; techniques for gaining broad-based campus support; and creating and utilizing a campus task force.
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CampusMHAP Webinar II: Identifying Priorities
The second webinar in the Campus Mental Health Action Planning series describes how to develop a clear and specific definition of campus problems that will help drive program planning. This session focuses on examining data relating to student mental health and wellness; prioritizing problems and choosing which to address; and setting goals for health behavior and systems change.
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CampusMHAP Webinar III: Developing Programs
The third Campus Mental Health Action Planning webinar focuses on selecting and developing campus practices that are most likely to decrease mental health problems, suicidal behavior, and suicide and promote mental health and wellness. Topics covered include how to: develop a comprehensive, multi-strategy approach; choose “best practices”; and use a logic model in program planning.
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CampusMHAP Webinar IV: Measuring Impact
The fourth Campus Mental Health Action Planning webinar provides a basic orientation to the design and implementation of process and outcome evaluations for programs that promote mental health and reduce risk factors for suicide and suicidal behavior. This session covers key methods of quantitative and qualitative program evaluation; experiences of one campus in planning an evaluation of a widely-used training program; and how to work with your program evaluator in developing an appropriate evaluation plan.
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Center for College Health and Safety: Campus Health and Safety
This web site is an online resource for higher education administrators, students, parents, and other professionals who are seeking information about creating healthier and safer living and learning environments for college and university students, both on campus and in the surrounding community. This resource emphasizes a comprehensive public health approach to addressing alcohol and other drug use and violence and in promoting mental health wellness among students.
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Enhancing Program Performance with Logic Models
This course offered by the University of Wisconsin Extension introduces a holistic approach to planning and evaluating education and outreach programs. It helps program practitioners use and apply logic models and provides a foundation in logic models and how to use them for planning, implementation, evaluation, or communicating about a program.
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Enhancing Social Networks
This presentation from the 2009 SAMHSA Grantee Technical Assistance Meeting provides an overview of social connection as a protective factor against suicidal behavior.
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Experiences in Effective Prevention: The U.S. Department of Education’s Alcohol and Other Drug Prevention Models on College Campuses Grants
This publication reviews and synthesizes information gained from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools’ model programs to identify the characteristics that are common to model programs that can be adapted for other campuses. Lessons are applicable to the prevention of any health problem on campus. Campus collaborations, including task forces and coalitions, are addressed on pages 35-44 and 65-68.
